Lost rights : the misadventures of a stolen American relic /

Lost rights : the misadventures of a stolen American relic /

This remarkable American story follows the long, shadowy trail of a single document, North Carolina's wayward copy of the Bill of Rights. With ratification of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1789, fourteen elegantly handwritten copies were drafted, one for each of the original s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, David, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 1st-10th Amendments.
Lost articles > North Carolina > History.
Theft of relics > North Carolina > History.
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.

Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: E480 .H847 2010
 
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